Last year was another golden year for ukulele music. And it’s time again to spread the love for your favourites in this year’s vote.

For the first stage, everyone gets to nominate up to 5 videos – leave them in the comments (click here for the comments section if you reading by email or RSS). From those nominations, I’ll cobble together a list of ten (ish) that will be voted on in the next round. Use whatever criteria you like. I went with whichever videos/songs I enjoyed most.

The Rules

The rules remain as ramshackle as ever:

– There has to be a ukulele in there.
– Videos must have been originally uploaded in 2012.
– Videos must be publicly available online.
– Maximum of five nominations per person.
– Post your nominations in the comments.
– Nominations close midnight Tuesday 5th February.
– Ten(ish) acts with the most nominations go into the final vote with their most nominated song going forward.
– No prize. Just the love and admiration of the heaving masses.
– No sucking up by nominating me.

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I nominate Mariah Carey, Jimmy Fallon, and The Roots doing “All I Want For Christmas Is You” over “Call Me Maybe.” Despite sort of begrudgingly likely Call Me Maybe and despite the ukulele being hidden way in the background on this one.

I’m nothing if not a fan of Christmas music so I’m also going for John Roderick doing “The Week Between” while a camel eats some mysterious items in the background.

And I’ll thrown in the Leftover Cuties cover of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” though largely because I forgot they uploaded that video for “Places To Go” a year ago.

I am a fool, didn’t realise the deadline had crept past me – thank goodness my favourite video has already been nominated. John Bianchi is such a great performer, lovely voice, specialises in wonderful old songs from the 20’s and 30’s and plays fabulous uke and banjo-uke to boot –